Everydayness is merely an attempt filling the emptiness. Therefore, we are trying in this way to state that we did something during the day that passed.
In actual fact we left nothing behind. We simply filled the day.
He who thinks day by day, will have problems • he will be looking only at kairos, meaning, the passing instant, and not chronos, time.
The book belongs only to time, and does not deal with the passing instant.
That is, when you are reading a book, it does not matter what was the exact date, or what was the month in which it was written in.
What matters, is what the author was thinking at the time that he wrote it.
This leads us away from everydayness.
Therefore, we have everydayness with the emptiness it’s trying to fill – unsuccessfully though – and in the end, it still leaves a gap and then, we have kenotis, which, knowing that a person alone does not have great value and those worthy are all the others around him, then he manages to write a piece of work for the others.
From the instant that one realizes, that he is the other, and that the “other others” are more important than him, then the chain reaction is activated, and we are indeed, within the context of Humanity.
That’s why books are so important. Because, they are texts, which are objects.
We refer to the Bible as books and that is not coincidental.
Therefore, if we stop and think, that we have given to the books the same name as the Bible, which is in actual fact, the Book – although it was in plural -, you can understand the importance given.
You understand also, that in other languages the book is associated with freedom.
That is- in French, the etymology of ‘livre’ is just like the ‘libre’ -, the idea is, that only he who is free reads.